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Amanda Nunes vs. Felicia Spencer

UFC 16-2-0 vs. 3-3-0

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that line
16-2-0
UFC record
3-3-0
Women's Bantamweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Featherweight
38
AgeΔ 3 yrs
35
5'8"
HeightΔ 2"
5'6"
69"
ReachΔ 1"
68"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
40.4
Layoff (months)Δ 18.8 mo
59.2
WWLWW
Last 5 (newest first)
WLLWL

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
Amanda Nunes carries real power — 0.59 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.07 Women's Bantamweight norm.
Amanda Nunes hunts takedowns — 2.79 per 15 minutes, vs a 0.91 Women's Bantamweight norm.
Felicia Spencer absorbs 4.54 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 2.34 Women's Featherweight norm — hittable.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

Amanda Nunes

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 162
Tier 3 — regional circuit 73

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.59 · 16 tier-1/2 wins · 17 finish wins over 28 documented bouts

In the UFC: 13-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.2 wins over .500

Felicia Spencer

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 33
Tier 3 — regional circuit 60

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.22 · 3 tier-1/2 wins · 7 finish wins over 12 documented bouts

In the UFC: 1-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.5 wins over .500

Striking

Career totals · norms = own-division medians

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

9284.54/min · norm 3.60
Sig. strikes landed
2453.21/min · norm 3.79
4992.44/min · norm 3.51
Sig. strikes absorbed lower is better
3474.54/min · norm 2.34
52.0%norm 46.5%
Striking accuracy
48.8%norm 50.4%
59.3%norm 52.8%
Striking defense
45.4%norm 63.8%
80.59/15 · norm 0.07
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.16

Where the fight happens (share of sig. strike attempts)

Amanda Nunes

Distance 73.4% (norm 80.4%) · Clinch 2.9% (norm 9.4%) · Ground 23.8% (norm 7.3%)

Felicia Spencer

Distance 67.3% (norm 72.1%) · Clinch 16.9% (norm 16.0%) · Ground 15.7% (norm 11.9%)

What they throw (share of sig. strike attempts by target)

Amanda Nunes

Head 74.9% (norm 75.5%) · Body 11.1% (norm 15.0%) · Legs 14.0% (norm 8.7%)

Felicia Spencer

Head 77.5% (norm 73.9%) · Body 13.5% (norm 14.5%) · Legs 9.0% (norm 9.0%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

Green ≥ division median, red below. UFCStats tracks position and target as separate splits.

Zone Nunes L/AAccWomen's Bantamweight med Spencer L/AAccWomen's Featherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 639 / 1309 48.8% 38.5% 120 / 338 35.5% 46.8%
In the clinch 33 / 51 64.7% 74.3% 64 / 85 75.3% 78.3%
On the ground 256 / 424 60.4% 70.8% 61 / 79 77.2% 69.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 629 / 1337 47.0% 37.7% 167 / 389 42.9% 42.9%
To the body 124 / 198 62.6% 71.1% 43 / 68 63.2% 78.2%
To the legs 175 / 249 70.3% 80.8% 35 / 45 77.8% 81.7%

Zones with fewer than 25 attempts are marked "too few to rate". Each fighter is measured against the median of leaderboard-eligible fighters in his own division (Women's Bantamweight: 41 fighters · Women's Featherweight: 3 fighters).

What lands on them Opponents' accuracy against each man

Green ≤ division median — harder to hit than the typical man in his division.

Zone vs Nunes L/AOpp accWomen's Bantamweight med vs Spencer L/AOpp accWomen's Featherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 397 / 1071 37.1% 41.3% 258 / 515 50.1% 32.7%
In the clinch 45 / 66 68.2% 75.0% 50 / 66 75.8% 75.0%
On the ground 57 / 89 64.0% 74.2% 39 / 54 72.2% 72.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 338 / 1001 33.8% 37.7% 213 / 476 44.7% 26.4%
To the body 73 / 109 67.0% 73.2% 78 / 98 79.6% 60.3%
To the legs 88 / 116 75.9% 80.9% 56 / 61 91.8% 67.6%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
3856.7% acc · 2.79/15 · norm 0.91
Takedowns landed
618.8% acc · 1.18/15 · norm 1.18
2681.3% def · norm 62.5%
Takedowns stopped
327.3% def · norm 74.4%
69:5834.2% of cage time · norm 26.3%
Control time
23:4631.1% of cage time · norm 22.5%
13:120:58 per 15 · norm 3:19
Time under control lower is better
12:172:24 per 15 · norm 2:26
100.73/15 · norm 0.36
Submission attempts
10.20/15 · norm 0.00

Bars compare the two men's rates (per-minute / per-15 figures), not raw totals — Nunes has more cage time on record.